By Eric Goldring
So where the heck have I been? I mean I have been on the Seabourn Odyssey for about a week and you have heard pretty much nothing. Well… All is fine; actually better than fine…It is fantastic. However, the mix of people and the timing of events have taken a
We arrived in Athens to pouring rain. Flooded streets and a traffic nightmare. Sounds terrible, right? Well, it wasn’t. Everyone arrived at the St. George Lycabettus Hotel and soaked in the fantastic views of the Acropolis from our rooms. We even had all of our luggage! After a bit of
My bags are packed and I am ready to go…OK, those are the lyrics to “Leaving on a Jet Plane” by Peter, Paul and Mary (Yes, “age” is upon me), but that has absolutely nothing to do with this quest for a fantastic sojourn on the Seabourn Odyssey. The fact
Earlier this week I wrote about Regent Seven Seas Cruises suffering from a seriously high cancellation rate (around 25%). You can read about it here. What I didn’t know at the time (and still have not received any official announcement about it nor did Mark Conroy, Regent’s President, mention it at the conference
We are about to start out on our 2010 Goldring Travel Food & Wine Cruise aboard the Seabourn Odyssey. We will be visiting a wide area of the Mediterranean during the “off season”, so hopefully we will get a taste of what a number of ports are like without tourists…other
My concern about using Facebook and setting up a Goldring Travel page is the overloading of my clients and potential clients with information from yet another source. I mean with mail, emails, The Gold Standard Luxury Travel Forum, GoldringTravel.com, This Is My Yacht Blog and now Facebook, is it too much…or
I recently attended a conference where Mark Conroy, President of Regent Seven Seas Cruises spoke. He shared information which I found rather disturbing. Disturbing not because it was aggravating (like the “FREE” hotel stay that is not free because it is only available if you pay a higher fare…which more
Yesterday I attending a meeting/seminar with Oceania Cruises regarding upcoming changes to its product and for some new information on its newest ship, Marina, which will be delivered in January 2011. Overall, as Celebrity has done, Oceania is introducing some new concepts (at least new to Oceania) on its newest
On October 18, 2010 I warned everyone that Seabourn was going to be increasing prices. You can read the “I Told You So” here. But you need to keep the price increase in perspective. Prices are actually not increasing, but normalizing. Over the past 18 months Seabourn’s pricing has been
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